R.The Trump administration blocks millions of dollars for family planning services from more than ten organizations.
age In 1970The Federal Family Planning Program, known as the title X, allows millions of dollars for clinics that provide health care services such as birth control, cancer examination, and testing diseases transmitted with sexual intercourse with low -income families. March 31, family planning – one of the largest address providers x –He said In a press release that nine of its subsidiaries received notifications from the federal government that their X -April 1 title will be blocked.
according to Family planningMore than three quarters of its subsidiaries receive the address of the address X, and in 2023, there were more than 1.5 million visits to the planned paternity health centers that received the financing of the address X.
One of the nine affected dependents is Organizing the Great Family Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK)Which serves those four countries, as well as Edaho and Washington, Washington. The CEO of Rebecca Gibron estimates that, as a result of freezing, about 3 million dollars will now be withheld from five of the six states that serve PPGNHAIK: Idaho, Indiana, Kentuccy, Alaska and Hawaii. Gibron says more than half of the health centers of PPGNHAIK in six states serve more than 40,000 patients annually through the X.
“In our states, we are equipped with a safety network that provides affordable birth control, cancer examination, and testing sexual intercourse with sexual intercourse and treatment,” says Gabrun. “These patients rely on the X title for their health care, and without this program, patients may not be able to reach this care at all.” The head of the Family Planning Fund and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson He said in a press release If people are not able to reach this care, the cancers may not be detected, access to birth control can be reduced, and sexually transmitted infections may increase.
A spokesman for the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) told the time in an email that the administration blocks the X funds from 16 organizations “awaiting the evaluation of possible violations of the terms of grants, including federal civil rights laws and the executive order of the President 14218,” a tax of the open couples tax, “by Trump registered Trump in Feb. Executive order It declares that illegal immigrants are prohibited from “obtaining most of the benefits funded by taxpayers.”
The spokesman said: “HHS is conducting this evaluation to ensure that these entities are completely complied with the federal law and the conditions of the grants in force, and to ensure the supervision of the taxpayers of taxpayers,” the spokesman said. They did not answer questions about the details of “possible violations”, and the amount of money that is withheld from the affected organizations, which were affected by the freezing of financing.
On March 25, Wall Street Journal I mentioned that HHS was considering freezing 27.5 million dollars from More than 200 million dollars Devoted for the annual X title budget.
Jabron calls the “political motivated” money to block. It accuses the Trump administration of the desire to “close the health centers of the planned paternity to satisfy its supporters to combat abortion”, saying that the freezing of the title X is the “last attempt” by the administration to calm the planned paternity.
“The truth is that the health centers of the planned paternity across the country serve millions of patients every year, regardless of the state of migration, political affiliation, race or sex – everything that is welcome at the Family Planning Health Center,” says Gibron. “Access to basic reproductive and sexual health services is the health care that everyone needs.”
In 2019, during the first Trump administration, the federal government outlet New restrictions on the beneficiaries of the title X, with their exception to the provision of miscarriages (address x dollars that do not finance abortion services). the Goette InstituteThat is looking and supports sexual and reproductive health and rights, Find The restriction-which is often referred to as the “local gag base”-is headed by Covid-19, and led to the loss of 981 health care centers from the title X and resulted in about 2.4 million patients receiving care through the Federal Program in 2020 compared to 2018. Biden Administration. Eliminate The local jinn base in 2021.
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The basic company, Access Health, said, which distributes x funds for clinics in California and Hawaii, in a press statement in which it participated over time, and also received a notification that its X funds were temporarily withholding while the group responds to “an investigation into compliance with federal policy, civil rights practices and executive orders that focus on Dei activities within 10 days.” On the day he took office, Trump fell Executive order Aim Dismantling diversity, fairness and inclusion (Dei) Efforts.
“This unprecedented, arbitrary and immediate stopping in the distribution of decisive resources is harmful to patients and service providers,” said Essential Access Health in a joint press statement. “Any harmful financing delay, and the extended delay will destroy our family planning network.”
Reproductive rights experts condemned the Trump administration’s transfer to freeze the address of the address X. Amy Friedrich Carnick, director of federal policy at the Goette Institute, says she was not shocked by this step, but she is “very devastating.” According to Friedrich Karenik, early estimates from the experts of the Goette Institute indicate that between 600,000 and 1.25 million people can be affected by the freezing of this financing annually, based on Latest data available at the address x from 2023.
“The impact of this program on the arrival of people to the necessary reproductive health care services is very clear-how people benefit from this access and how it is a program that fills a very important gap for people who cannot obtain health care elsewhere,” says Friedrich Carnick. “Not only reproductive healthcare services such as contraceptives, STI test, and cancer shows are in danger, [but] For many people, this is the only touch point with a health care system at all. “
According to data from Population Affairs Office HHSAbout 83 % of patients who have received care from clinics that received the X address in 2023 who have a family income in or less than 250 % of Federal poverty level. Friedrich Carnick says Data He also explains that colored persons are likely to reach an inconsistent with the X -title services. It is called a “direct attack on health rights”, adding that the title X has been established “to ensure that the historically deprived communities have managed to access health care and reproductive health care”, and the performance of the Trump administration to punish beneficiaries of the title X “to do what was prepared for the program exactly.”
Friedrich Carnick says that freezing is “definitely an attack” on people of low -income families, “who already have the largest number of barriers that prevent access to health care services.”
